February 2024
Group Show at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
Tom Hunter's Lover Set on Fire in Bed ( 2004 ) from the gallery's archive is the starting point for the exhibition Lovers at Green On Red Gallery, opening Thursday, 15 February 2024. The exhibition will continue until Friday, 8 March only.
A theme in the exhibition is the pairing of two elements or two protagonists in intense proximity or juxtaposition."Flood's paintings and his sculptures are characterised by an emotional coexistence : melancholy, as if generated by the impression of a continuous loss of something, and joy, as when that something is found or rediscovered or, better, when it turns out that it's not that important. "
Exhbititing Artists: Alan Butler John Cronin Damien Flood Tom Hunter Mark Joyce Caroline McCarthy Fergus Martin Xavier Theunis Nil Yalter ​
Opening Reception : Thursday, 15th February 18:00 - 21:00 hrs
Dates : Thursday, 15th February - Friday, 8th March 2024
Gallery Open : Monday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00 hrs
Saturday and Sunday by appointment
November 2023
Solo Exhibition At Galleria Weber&Weber, Turin
A Place for Lost Things
4th November 2023 - 20th January 2024Curated by Valeria Ceregini
In Damien Flood’s new solo exhibition A Place for Lost Things, he continues to push and poke at the edges and boundaries of painting and image making. A central Question to Flood’s practice is how, in modern times, an artist depicts the world around him.
Over the last three years, ceramics have given Flood a new way of working. Folding in different and more direct meaning into his work. The working process of clay connects further to ideas of the past, digging down to unearth otherworldly artefacts. It also allows the paintings time to breath and follow their own path.
In this new body of work comprising of new paintings and ceramics, Flood presents the viewer with mainly large paintings alongside intimate ceramic works. They fold together elements of various styles, approaches, and techniques. The paintings build a world that is still, paused in the middle of becoming undone. One that is emotive, reflective and asks questions of the viewer. The ceramics pose questions about the role of artifacts and how we culturally deal with the inevitable humorous tinge.
These works are laboured and slow to make rewarding slow viewing. The paintings can be divided into interiors and exteriors. The interiors display anthropomorphic qualities. The lines between what is animate and inanimate are blurred. The exteriors bring new elements of life into Flood’s work.A Place for Lost Things
4th November - 20th January 2024
Preview: Tuesday 31st October, 6 - 9 pm
Notte delle Arti Contemporanee in the presence of the artist: Saturday 4th November, 4 - 11 pm
Location: Galleria Weber&Weber, Via San Tommaso 7, Torino, ItalyKindly support by Culture Ireland
More infomration: http://www.galleriaweber.it/
August 2023
Green On REd Gallery at The Armory Show, New York
Green On Red Gallery is excited to announce our return to The Armory Show in September 2023 with new work from Damien Flood, Scott Lyall, Niamh McCann and David OReilly. Booth 224
Working across multiple media and exploring a variety of themes, the artists are united in their ability to disrupt safe and easy readings of social, cultural, and historic signs. Flood interrogates the ontology of painting and sculpture through multi-layered works that oscillate between landscape, figuration, representation and abstraction. Referencing the pixel, Lyall’s colour-wave paintings are formed by mathematical interpolation that generates a unique and potentially infinite bitstream as he questions the informational fetish of the post-digital and their signs. McCann playfully disrupts the world of cultural and historic signs as she upends the systems enabling their meaning. Poetic and political, the signifiers and symbols of hegemonic colonial power are reformed as a tool to question our underlying assumptions. OReilly seeks to disrupt and unsettle our understanding of contemporary cultural systems as he recontextualizes the revolutionary 4004 Intel microchip ( USA, 1971 ), offered as both an artefact and an icon through video and sculpture.
Re-started in 1994 in the Gramercy Hotel by four New York art dealers seeking to support their artists by attracting global attention, The Armory Show has become a groundbreaking cultural moment that is a vital aspect of the New York and American art market. Since 2021 the fair has taken place in the newly expanded Javits Center and continues to link visitors to exhibitors at the fair as well as New York City with global galleries, museums, arts organizations, artists and collectors. The Armory Show launches the fall art season.
For more info: http://www.greenonredgallery.com
2023 VIP Preview: Invitation Only
Thursday, September 7
Dates : September 8–10, 2023
Booth #224
Address: Javits Center
Crystal Palace Entrance, 429 11th Ave,
Between 35th and 36th Streets,
New York, NY, 10001
February 2023
Try a Little Tenderness, Group Show at Liminal Gallery, Margate.
Tender moments, tender flesh, tender touch, tender thoughts, tender heart, tender mind; try a little tenderness.
A tender moment is encapsulated in an act of thoughtfulness; a cup of tea at the end of the day, a gift of flowers, a display of love. Tenderness is to give up one's time, attention, precious moments devoted to another. Tenderness is also pain, a moment of fragility, of weakness. It evokes skin which expands, shrinks, multiplies, and shivers to the touch. Skin which is a dying organism, for surely that is what we all are. A tender morsel of meat, deliciously melts in the mouth.
Damien Flood’s work spans painting and sculpture and are recognisably traditional but steeped in surprisingly modern principles. Tender moments are captured, fleeting as if a dream, yet tactile enough for recognition. The experience of a lived experience and the fleeting moments we cherish and cling to.
Exploring these themes in contrasting ways ‘Try a little Tenderness’ brings together the works of three artists whose practice is unified in the attempt to capture these fleeting moments.
Liminal Gallery
34 Fort Hill,Margate
CT9 1HD,
UK
Website: www.liminal-gallery.com
November 2022
REVIEW: James Merrigan reviews DIG at Green On Red Gallery.
“There is something about the ‘last’ painting in the gallery that is suggestive of the last painting Flood painted in this body of work, or will ever paint. In the same way Stephen McKenna’s darkest painting “Large Night Interior” exhibited at the Kerlin Gallery is 2017 was literally his last painting, and looked it too.” ðŸ´
To read the full review Click Here.
Exhibition runs until 26th November.
October 2022
Dig, Solo Exhbition at Green On Red Gallery.
21 October - 27 November 2022
Monday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday and Sunday by appointment
Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock
Dublin 1 D01 Y821Green On Red Gallery is excited to announce an exhibition of new paintings, ceramics and a new limited edition vinyl, For After Ever, by Damien Flood in its Spencer Dock gallery, opening on Thursday, October 20 next and running until November 27, 2022.
Flood continues to make paintings and ceramic works that are seen separately and, in the case of Hanging Garden ( 2022 ), where one medium seems to grow out of or is enmeshed with the other. We are more used to this cross-fertilization with architectural embellishment, like the shrouded life-size sculpted figure in the Pére Lachaise cemetery, Paris ( illustrated in Flood’s 2018 book The Figure in the Carpet – Damien Flood : p.2 ). In Hanging Garden ( oil on linen, ceramic and moss ) sculpture grows out of painting. In Evening Sand ( 2022 ) a live clematis climbs through a trellis-like plinth that supports a landscape hand-painted on a round unique ceramic vase.
Life and death are also intertwined.
These kinds of leaps and transformations are at the heart of Flood’s art. As a title, Dig suggests a deathly or macabre action. And mortality is never far from Flood’s brush. But dig is necessary to grow and his oil on canvases are teeming with abundant life. Even his “ indoor “ Design for a Living Room ( 2022 ) ( oil on reversed black-primed canvas with 22 carat gold leaf ) is full of atmosphere, passing clouds or ice-caps, and a chair sprouting green life, all defying an easy definition or understanding of these works.
His series of richly glazed ceramic heads and popular Grinners hit home harder. They confront the viewer in shiny, unsettling detail with uncomfortable truths about the facts of death and decay. Their material and their form also rhyme with the idea of excavation and digging down through the layers of time compressed beneath the surface, to the ruins of past lives.
This is an exhibition for our times, making us wonder just how much we have progressed and how much – or little – life has changed. The use of fired clay already suggests something classical and pre-historic and funerary. His painted landscapes are vivid interior dream worlds posing more questions than answers. The viewer has to dig deep.
You dig deep, you plant deep.
A dig is also a goad to the viewer, a wound and a provocation. This exhibition will not leave you unmoved but provoke a gut response to Flood’s new, visceral, sights and sounds.
Accompanying the show is a three-track vinyl record in an edition of 30 called For After Ever. Each track is written, composed and performed by GUT ( Damien Flood ). It is lathe-cut and available for purchase at the gallery.
For further information or PDF of works fetaured in the show please email here
Or visit www.greenonredgallery.ie
Limited Edition Lathe Cut Vinyl Release
As part of Damien Flood's new Solo Show at Green On Red Gallery he is releasing a limited edition lathe cut vinyl.
The limited-edition lathe cut record comprises of three tracks written and performed by the artist going under the moniker of GUT. The record titled ‘For After Ever’ came about during the fracturing time of the pandemic. Many feelings and ghosts from the past resurfaced. Long forgotten personalities thought laid to rest made themselves known. As much as they were unwanted, they did bring with them a curiosity to revisit and reclaim passions of the past. The three tracks are not art and Flood does not consider himself a musician. GUT is a tool, a musical endeavour to examine a time when he made music with friends purely for the love and fun of it. It touches on a time, simultaneously celebrating and grieving the loss of a friend. It examines the fugitive world building nature of writing, recording, and releasing and the desire to share emotions and feelings. It is a different part of Flood’s personality, one that ties into his practice and further develops the humour and melancholic undertone to his work.
Gut, For After Ever, lathe cut vinyl, Limited to 30 copies, numbered.
€35 + postage and packaging.
The record will be available at the gallery on the opening night and while stocks last.
To listen online please click here
To reserve or puchase a copy please click here
September 2022
Irish Arts Review Feature
In the Autumn 22 Edition of the Irish Arts Review, Damien Flood is the featured artist on view.
Cristin Leach discovers an artist who takes real pleasure in unexpected textures and fragmented compositions.
The feature is a 4 page overview of Damien Flood's practice written by Art Critic and Writer Cristin Leach.
For more information or to purchase a copy please visit www.irishartsreview.com
September 2021
TILT Monograph now on sale from RHA Gallery website
The new monograph published on the occasion of Damien Flood's solo show Tilt is now on sale on the RHA Gallery website.
The publication includes new comissioned texts by James Merrigan and Sue Rainsford with a forward by RHA Director Patrick T Murphy.
It features a compreshesive overview of the show, including installation shots of the exhibition.
Edition of 500
Designed by the artist
92 pages
Hard back with blind debossed cover.
To purchase a copy click here>
Green On Red Gallery at Vienna Contemporary
Green On Red Gallery will show a selection of new work including new oil paintings and ceramic figures.
Other artists exhibiting with the gallery are Alan Butler, Fergus Martin, Mark Joyce and Kirsten Arndt.
Art Fair runs from 2nd of September to 5th
Opening hours:
2 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
3 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
4 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
5 September 2021 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
VIP Hour 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Public 1:00 pm - 7:00 pmVenue: Alte Post
Postgasse 10
1010 Vienna
Organizer VC Artevents GmbH
Siebensterngasse 46/1/44, 1070 Vienna
More information at:
www.viennacontemporary.at
May 2021
Solo Show TILT Opens May 10th at Royal Hibernian Academy.
RHA Brown and O’hUiginn Gallerie will host TILT, the first institutional solo exhibition of Damien Flood's work, consisting of a new body of paintings and fired and glazed ceramic figures and vases, perched on customised plinths in concrete, brass and steel. The exhibition will run from Monday, 10 May to Saturday, 1 August, 2021.
TILT shows a remarkable cross-fertilisation of ideas and imagery between the sometimes lush, sometimes spare painting on canvas and his new miniature squat figures with wrent expressions aimed directly at the viewer. Colourful glazed urns appear inside and outside the paintings, on an edge between this world and the next, with wit and humour, in the face of the unknown and the shocking uncertainty of our times.
Throughout the exhibition we find a new group of what can best be described as flower paintings, anchoring us in this world. These lush memento mori were made in part after seeing paintings from his deathbed of the same subject ( 1880s ) by Edouard Manet - father of modernism - while Flood was on a residency in the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, in 2018. Foliage, seascape, gardens and horizon lines give us a footing and a fruitful starting point from which to explore TILT.
To book a viewing slot to see TILT please go to:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/rha-gallery-admission-tickets-152996383301
April 2021
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James Merrigan invited Damien Flood to talk about his decade of self publishing for his new Thing's Screen Podcast. They discuss Flood's publications over the last 11 years in the run up to his latest publication which will be published to coincide with his solo show at the Royal Hibernian Academy this summer.
So… I went podcasting yesterday… In great hunger and appetite for Damien Flood's exhibition at the RHA Gallery Dublin in the coming months, and the launch of his sixth book, I asked him to chat about the decade-long self-publishing that has accompanied his exhibitions.
During that time Damien has confronted the relationship between "words and things", what Michel Foucault called "the entirely serious title of a problem". On canvas and in books, Damien's independent and stubborn painting project has always created & confronted problems privately (in the studio) & publicly (in the gallery). Proffering free reign to his collaborators, many "things" have happened amidst the "words". As a friend & collaborator I have always felt free to write with enmity; what Derrida described as the "politics of friendship" has always been tested.
-James Merrigan
To view the full Video Interview click here >
For more information on Damien Flood's solo show Tilt click here>
February 2021
Artist Feature Page by Green On Red Gallery
Green On Red Gallery have unveiled their new Artists Feature Page. For the inaugural feature they have chosen the work of Damien Flood. The feature gives an in-depth look at recent developments in his practice in the run up to his solo show Tilt at The Royal Hibernian Academy.
Culturally, decorative, but used for every occasion in life from birth to death, cut flowers in painting – a veritable industry in 17C. Netherlands - are also, of course, intended as a moral jolt, a memento mori. The French call it : “nature morte “. Dead nature. The seed for these paintings was sown during Flood’s discovery while on a Centre Culturel Irlandais - Paris, residency in 2018 of late flower paintings by Edouard Manet. The French master painted the daily flower deliveries like Roses in Champagne Glass ( 1882 ), Tulips and Lilacs in a Crystal Vase ( 1882 ) from his deathbed. Flood paints Blooming Pint Glass ( 2020 ) and Bean Can Oak ( 2020 ) with a grittier realism.
On the Artist Feature Page you will also find videos of his new cermic works edited and soundtracked by the artist.
To view Green On Red Gallery's Artist Feature Page Click Here>
Further information on the show can be found on the Royal Hibernian Academy's website by Clicking here>
This show has been kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, The Wicklow County Council, and the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Royal Hibernian Academy
15 Ely Place, Dublin 2, D02 A213
Ph: 353 1 661 2558
www.rhagallery.ie
Email: info@rhagallery.ie
Exhibition dates to be confrmed due to Covid 19 restrictions.
For more infomation please contact: studio AT damienflood.ie
January 2021
TILT
Solo Show at The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Opening to be confirmed due to Covid 19 restrictions.
Tilt brings together a new body of work that juxtaposes paintings with a series of new ceramic works.
What has resulted from these two years of research and making is the solo show Tilt. The exhibition juxtaposes the new ceramic work against a series of new paintings. The ceramics sit upon handmade brass, cement, and steel stands, evoking delicate and industrial aesthetics.The heavily layered and sumptuous paintings fold together disparate elements that I have developed over the last 14 years. They are combined to create lush complex works that evoke spaces that flip between internal and external, macro, and micro. Flowers grown from paint feature heavily throughout the exhibition. The large paintings depict places in a permanent state of becoming, places to be inhabited by the viewer. The smaller works depict ethereal gardens or singular plants, recognisable moments in an ever-shifting landscape. A series of vases merge the ceramics with the canvases through their painted surfaces, balancing on thin rusted metal stands, contrasting their beauty, and skewing the exhibition space.
The ceramic works pull on the tension exploiting the transition from the real world to the fragmented world of imagination and memory and the tension between a figurative and abstract language. The series of Crying Men and Grinners tug with dark humour at chords of association with primitive cultures and pagan offerings while juxtaposing the emotional landscape of the paintings.
This show has been kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, The Wicklow County Council, and the Royal Hibernian Academy.
More information can be found here>
Royal Hibernian Academy
15 Ely Place, Dublin 2, D02 A213
Ph: 353 1 661 2558
www.rhagallery.ie
Email: info@rhagallery.ie
For more infomation please contact: studio AT damienflood.ie
May 2020
Remote Joy at Green On Red Gallery
Green On Red Gallery Presents : Remote Joy, our first Online and Gallery exhibition
We invite you to visit our debut online/gallery exhibition, Remote Joy, which will launch on our website at 6 pm tomorrow, May 14th, 2020. See new work by Kirstin Arndt, Alan Butler, Constant Dullaart, Damien Flood, John Graham, Mark Joyce, Caroline McCarthy, Ronan McCrea, Fergus Martin & Aoife Shanahan.
To view the show simply click here. The exhibition is currently live and can be viewed there and/or in the gallery in Spencer Dock, until Saturday, June 28th, 2020.The stimulus to curate and to host Remote Joy is to maintain business, to show that art continues to be created, even in these trying and frightening times. It is to inspire and to provoke thought and pleasure through the continued enjoyment of the art being made by our artists, even in these restricting times, when most of us are working from home and some artists are locked out of their studios.
Remote Joy aims to bring some joy and art right into your homes for the duration of this exhibition where, at the touch of a few buttons, you can see new art that is being made because of or despite the uncertain conditions that prevail globally. In fact, this exhibition shows that in many ways the pandemic Covid-19 can bring us closer together. It can also give us more time to contemplate and to savour the important and challenging things in our lives, including new art.
The exhibition is partly remote. It is partly joyful. It is sometimes both.
In this online show you will find new work by some of the above-listed artists that is visible exclusively on your screen, wherever you are.
You will also find images, including installation views, of a selection of the new artworks that are hanging in the gallery in Spencer Dock and “ opening “ on Thursday, May 14, 2020 until June 27, 2020.
Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane, Spencer Dock
Dublin 1
Ireland
February 2020
Great Small Works
Stephane Simoens will be showing over 80 small works by 34 artists.
The exhibiting artists alongside Damien Flood are :
Philip AKKERMAN - ANONYMOUS - Laurenz BERGES - Udona BOEREMA - Michael CANNING -Walter DAHN - Laurent DA SYLVA - Raoul DE KEYSER - Matilde DUUS - Ivan Liovik EBEL - Damien FLOOD - Albrecht FUCHS - Ross HANSEN Tobias HANTMANN - Niek HENDRIX - Diango HERNANDEZ - Klara HOSNEDLOVA - Brad KAHLHAMER - Natasja MABESOONE - Jesper Skov MADSEN - Sally MANN - Lars MORELL - David MURPHY - James William MURRAY - Frank NITSCHE - Johan NOBELL - Jan SCHOONHOVEN - Maximilian SCHUBERT - Robin SEIR - Berend STRIK - Kei TAKEMURA - Luc VANDERVELDE - Keke VILABELDA - Masaaki YAMADA
The exhibition runs from 22 February - 31 March 2020
Stephane Simoens
Knokke
Belgium
For more information visit: www.stephanesimoens.com
May 2019
New Ceramics at Volta Basel, 2019
10 – 15 June 2019. Booth B01
Green On Red Gallery is proud to announce its participation in Volta 15, Basel, Switzerland for the 10th time with four of its gallery artists with the theme of Memory and Desire. They include Alan Butler, Damien Flood, Caroline McCarthy and Xavier Theunis with new work completed for the exhibition at Elsässerstrasse 215, 4056 Basel.
Damien Flood’s earthenware clay ceramic figures are shown in combination with oil on linen paintings from his recent The Figure in the Carpet exhibition at Green On Red, Dublin, in 2018/19. This is not the first time his work has left the wall but it is the most explicit expression to date of the tension the artist likes to exploit in the transition from the real world to the fragmented world of his imagination and memory and the tension between a figurative and an abstract language. Crying Man (2019), Potter (2019), Metal Head (2019) and Moon Vase (2019) show off the artists considerable skill in this new medium. They also tug with dark humour at chords of association with primitive cultures and pagan offerings while echoing the emotional landscape of his oil on linens.
Xavier Theunis’s curiously titled Vue d’Atelier #23 continues his impeccable use of sharply cut adhesive vinyl paper, this time in a rainbow of gently curving, perfectly contiguous strips arranged in 3 equal columns. The vertical columns oscillate and sway adding to the up and down dance of colour. Colours range from fluorescent orange, yellow and pinks to sparkling white, sparkling gold and cerize over a 240 x 180cms expanse creating a luxuriant voluptuousness.
In her trademark understated fashion Caroline McCarthy picks the most modest and unpromising of starting points, the disposable plastic drinking straw - the subject and medium of choice for her first solo show and installation in Green On Red Gallery in 2011 - and performs conceptual summersaults giving the viewer on one level a whimsical composition but on another challenging their very belief system. Together Forever is the title of a new series of exquisite ink and gouache paintings on paper that will also be shown in her forthcoming solo show in Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn ( opening June 25, 2019 ). The suggestion of permanence and unity is at odds with the bare facts of these trompe l’oeil renderings of a transigent condition or, in the words of the artist “ a dishevelled formalism “. She adds: “ Together Forever is a joyful expression of a hedonistic party, a celebration drunk on colour and excess with no thought for the headache tomorrow “.
Alan Butler’s cyanotypes and deskscapes continue to test and cross the lines between the digital and whatever we define as the real realm. Butler mines that dichotomy in rich of ways employing manual techniques of early photography and painting.
For more information please contact Green On Red Gallery here>
Or if you would like a PDF of the works you can email: studio AT damienflood.ie
Green On Red Gallery
Volta Basel 2019
Basel
Switzerland
10 – 15 June 2019
January 2019
A Necessary Commitment to Mutation
The Green On Red Gallery invites you to its upcoming panel discussion A Necessary Commitment to Mutation, on the occasion of Damien Flood's extended solo exhibition The Figure in the Carpet and in response to texts by leading art critic Declan Long, Rawness and Rupture and Organalle by author Susan Rainsford. Both texts are published in the new monograph on the artist to accompany The Figure in The Carpet exhibition.Flood has marked himself out as one of the most distinctive and original artists of his generation since he first exhibited in the gallery in 2010. His paintings defy easy definition and reward repeated and extended viewing as they slowly yield up their half revealed, half concealed figures and narratives. The eye is led along a dotted line or insistent painted edge before it ends up in a sumptuous thick build-up of paint, of pattern or of nothingness, akin to the floating world of figures and forms in a Francis Bacon. The pressure of the descriptive force is equal to the lack of a clear and easy resolution.
The talk with the two keynote speakers and the artist takes at the Green On Red Gallery on Friday, February 1st, 2019 at 13.10. All welcome. Booking advised.
The Figure in The Carpet exhibition will be extended to February 2, 2019. ​
Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock ( Luas Stop to Rear of Apartments )
Dublin 1More info: www.greenonredgallery.com
December 2018
Solo Show: Shape of Things at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, LA
January 10 – February 2, 2018
Opening reception: Saturday, January 12th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pmDiane Rosenstein Gallery is happy to announce Shape of Things, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Irish-born artist Damien Flood. In the past decade, Damien Flood has distinguished himself as one of the most original painters of his generation, exhibiting recently in Dublin, London, Belgium, and Cologne. The paintings in this exhibition were made during recent residencies in Paris (Centre Culturel Irlandais) and Los Angeles (La Brea Studio Residency) and are a melancholic celebration of those experiences. A new monograph on the artist – The Figure in the Carpet - accompanies the show.
Damien Flood's oil paintings defy easy definition and reward repeated and extended viewing as they slowly yield up their half-revealed, half-concealed figures and narratives. They form a record of a myriad of thoughts and ideas, piecing together a new world in which the figure is fleeting and never fully whole. Flood mixes visual languages and motifs comprising of abstract forms, outlines, vases, hands and torsos that reoccur throughout his work. Some motifs bear a figurative semblance, while others are removed from any context. The experience is poetic.
The title – Shape of Things - alludes to the act of seeing imagined forms and shapes in the everyday. Silhouettes of objects creating a figure, intricate designs in a carpet conjuring up far off lands or faces appearing in hedges in low yellowing street light. The arrangements of disparate fragments within Flood’s paintings seem to form a similar function, allowing for multiple readings of new forms and tangential journeys.
This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. He previously exhibited in Los Angeles in 2017 in our group show, Wouldn’t it be nice if we could dream together? and Carrion Flowers, a solo show at The Cabin LA.
Damien Flood would like to thank the Arts Council of Ireland, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, and Danny First, Los Angeles, for their support.
The artist will attend the opening reception on Saturday, January 12th.Diane Rosentstein Gallery
831 N Highland Ave
Los Angeles
CA 90038
United States
For more information please visit www.dianerosenstein.com
Or email: info@dianerosenstein.com
The Figure in the Carpet, Hard-back monograph Now Available through the website's Publications section.
The new hardback monograph The Figure in the Carpet is now available through the Publications section of this website. The monograph contains new work created of over the last year and two new essays responding to the artists work by Sue Rainsford and Declan Long.
The new monograph is 64 pages, hardback, in an edition of 500 and designed by Damien Flood. You can see 15 images of the book in the publications section.
‘ Quickly, however, it became apparent that where meaning came away it came away in coarse and brittle fragments. It became apparent that ‘meaning’ was shards of rockface whose edges never realigned.
The feeling of these shards is the feeling of gums crowded and made sore by too many teeth. ’The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood 'Organelle' by Sue Rainsford, pg 12
'Flood’s paintings — in some ways like Albini’s attitudes and effects — are questing experiments in achieving such transformative, destabilising encounters. There is ‘rupture’; there are ‘cuts’ and there is a necessary commitment to ‘mutation’. These paintings are the vigorous outcomes of urgent, intense imaginative processes, and the products of an insistently independent artistic spirit.'
The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood "Rawness and Rupture: Damien Flood" Declan Long, pg 32It is also available from Green On Red Gallery, Dublin.
It will soon be available online through the publications section and from Stephane Simoens, Knokke-Heist and Diane Rosenstein, LA.
November 2018
The Figure in the Carpet, Hard-back monograph launch November 2018
The Figure in the Carpet is a new hardback monograph on the artist. It contains new work created of over the last year and two new texts responding to the artists work by Sue Rainsford and Declan Long.
‘ Quickly, however, it became apparent that where meaning came away it came away in coarse and brittle fragments. It became apparent that ‘meaning’ was shards of rockface whose edges never realigned.
The feeling of these shards is the feeling of gums crowded and made sore by too many teeth. ’The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood 'Organelle' by Sue Rainsford, pg 12
'Flood’s paintings — in some ways like Albini’s attitudes and effects — are questing experiments in achieving such transformative, destabilising encounters. There is ‘rupture’; there are ‘cuts’ and there is a necessary commitment to ‘mutation’. These paintings are the vigorous outcomes of urgent, intense imaginative processes, and the products of an insistently independent artistic spirit.'
The Figure in the Carpet, Damien Flood " Rawness and Rupture: Damien Flood " Declan Long, pg 32The new monograph is will be officially launched Thursday 29th November 2018 as part of the solo show ‘The figure in the Carpet’ at Green On Red Gallery.
It will soon be available online through the publications section and from Stephane Simoens, Knokke-Heist and Diane Rosenstein, LA.
If you would like an advanced copy please contact studio@damienfloo.ie
Solo Show The Figure in the Carpet at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
Opening 29th November 6-8pm
Exbitions runs until 26th January 2019
Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings, The Figure in the Carpet, by Damien Flood and the launch of a new hard-back monograph on the artist of the same title. Flood has marked himself out as one of the most distinctive and original artists of his generation since he first exhibited in the gallery in 2010. Flood's paintings defy easy definition and reward repeated and extended viewing as they slowly yield up their half revealed, half concealed figures and narratives. The eye is led along a dotted line or insistent painted edge before it ends up in a sumptuous thick build-up of paint, of pattern or of nothingness, akin to the floating world of figures and forms in a Francis Bacon. The pressure of the descriptive force is equal to the lack of a clear and easy resolution.
The Figure in the Carpet takes it’s title from the book of the same name by Henry James, first published in 1896. Told in the first person; the narrator meets his favourite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author's works. The author informs him that most critics, along with him, have missed the point, his secret ‘like a complex figure in a Persian carpet’. ‘The Figure in the Carpet’ has become a short-hand or idiom for the ‘key’ to understanding a writer’s work. Yet the story in which the idiom was born, refuses to open itself up to easy interpretations or analysis. After the story was published Jame’s contemporaries set themselves on a quest for the Figure as an identifiable physical entity. Similarly Damien Flood’s paintings search for an understanding. They form a record of a myriad of thoughts and ideas, piecing together a new world -one that tries to understand the world we live in. This new painted world is not easily discerned, the figure is fleeting and never fully whole.
In the context of the exhibition the title also alludes to the act of seeing imagined forms and shapes in the everyday world around us. Silhouettes of objects creating a figure, intricate designs in a carpet conjuring up far off lands or faces appearing in hedges in low yellowing street light. The arrangements of disparate fragments within Flood’s paintings seem to form a similar function, allowing for multiple readings of new forms and tangential journeys. He uses a mixture of visual languages and motifs comprising of abstract forms, outlines, vases, hands and torso’s that reoccur throughout the work. Whereas some of these motifs bear a figurative semblance that allows for a certain degree of recognition, still others remain exempt from any obvious traceable traits and thus removed from any context. These primarily abstract pictorial marks appear to be puzzle pieces on a plain, floating in a void, loosely recalling a former composition or memory, a patch of paint, or conveying a fleeting impression of reality. They are left for the viewer to complete their narrative or meaning. This is apparent in the large raw linen painting ‘Cabin View’ (2018)(illustrated). In this work twisting twig-like curls of paint lead the eye through the fragmented picture plane. A harlequin patterned vase ornately floats behind the central panel of colour, alluding to a depth within the canvas. The painting teases the viewer with many different visual orientations, interior and exterior merge into a series of movements. The linear elements map out many visual possibilities, heads, arms, mountains, fluctuate within each one of the disparate lines. Everything is permitted but nothing is true.
Artist's talk and events for the exhibition will be announced in early January 2019.Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock (Luas Stop 100m to gallery)
Dublin 1Full Press Release here>
More info: www.greeenonredgallery.com
September 2018
Sea Change, IADT 21 years: 14th Sept – 4th Nov
Opening 14th September
Sea Change IADT; 21 years of Art, Film and Animation
This anniversary exhibition includes contributions from alumni in the specialist fields of art, film and animation. The exhibition is curated by Oonagh Young and highlights the diversity of artistic practices that have been developed over twenty one years by graduates. The ‘sea change’ signifies a shift away from the traditional role of the creative industries, in-line with advancements in technology and is evident in the wide range of exciting and innovative professional artistic practices featured in this exhibition.
The exhibition features art works and films by David Beattie, Jenny Brady, Alan-James Burns, Nina Canell, Anita Delaney, Damien Flood, Mark Garry, Adam Gibney, Jesse Jones, Vera Klute, Mateusz Lubecki, Bea Mac Mahon, Maser, Fiona Marron, Ciaran Murphy, Gavin Murphy, Isobel Nolan, Meadhbh O’Connor and Sonia Shiel, and books by Sarah Baume, Fiona Gannon, James Merrigan, Chris Fite Wassilack, Sue Rainsford and Ciaran Walsh.For more information click here>
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Haigh Terrace
Moran Park
Dun Laoghaire
Museum of Mythological Water Beasts
Ormston House is proud to introduce new artworks and events at the Museum of Mythological Water Beasts throughout the month of September.
Opening reception: Thursday 6 September, 7-9pmThe Museum of Mythological Water Beasts (2016-) began with an open research process, meeting with catchment custodians to learn about the wild spaces and species of the city. Grounded in community wisdom, the project returns indoors over the next six months with a series of artistic commissions. The evolving exhibition-environment will also feature an open call via a Membership Scheme, and objects and artefacts from the municipal collection, extracted through archaeological digs of the river.
Participating artists: Ann Blake, Chris Boland, Mary Conroy, Ceara Conway, Isadora Epstein, Cara Farnan, Emma Fisher, Damien Flood, Andreas Kindler von Knobloch, Ruth Le Gear, Tom Watt and Tanad WilliamsEvents include: Trace by Ann Blake: 12, 13, 14 September, 6.30-7.30pm
Silent River Walk with Majella O’Donovan: Wednesday 19 September, 6-8pm
Culture Night with the Water Ensemble: Friday 21 September, 6-10pm
Medusa Lecture by Isadora Epstein: Thursday 27 September, 7-9pmCurated by Niamh Brown and Mary Conlon
For more information click here>
Ormston House
Cultural Resource Centre
9-10 Patrick Street
Limerick City, V94 V089
Ireland
June 2018
Damien Flood and Herbert Warmuth at Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne
Damien Flood will participate in a two person show with Herbert Warmuth at Thomas Rehbein Galerie in Cologne.
The show opens on Saturday 14th July from 2 until 6pm.
The exhibition runs until 18th of August.
For more information please click here
This exhibition is kindly supported by Culture Ireland.
Thomas Rehbein Galerie
Aachener Strasse 5
50674
Cologne
Email: art@rehbein-galerie.de